{"id":1494012,"date":"2022-05-27T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494012"},"modified":"2022-05-27T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:30:43","slug":"joe-died-of-a-broken-heart-relatives-grieve-over-husband-of-murdered-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-died-of-a-broken-heart-relatives-grieve-over-husband-of-murdered-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Joe Died Of A Broken Heart\u2019: Relatives Grieve Over Husband Of Murdered Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-died-of-a-broken-heart-relatives-grieve-over-husband-of-murdered-teacher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Relatives of Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers murdered in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, say that he died of a broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life of more than 25 years was too much to bear,\u201d Debra Austin, Irma\u2019s cousin wrote on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/joe-irma-garcia\">GoFund Me page<\/a> dedicated to the couple\u2019s four surviving children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Garcia family says they believe Joe Garcia truly died of a broken heart,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/special-reports\/uvalde-school-shooting\/husband-uvalde-teacher-dies-heart-attack\/273-77d11e8a-750e-4064-9450-4fd4f569b742\">KHOU<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and Irma Garcia had been married for 24 years. They had four children: Cristian, 23; Jose, 19; Lyliana, 16; and Alysandra, 12. \u201cCristian is at military boot camp while the couple\u2019s second son, Jose, attends Texas State University,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10859315\/Haunting-video-shows-widower-Texas-teacher-laying-flowers-memorial-just-hours-died.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Only hours before his death, \u00a0Garcia visited a memorial for his wife on Thursday morning, carrying a large vase of red roses. He reportedly loved barbecuing with his wife and enjoying music with her.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Garcia visited his wife&#8217;s memorial this morning to place flowers on a cross with her name on it. Joe is the husband to Irma Garcia. Not long after Joe visited Irma&#8217;s memorial, he suffered a heart attack and died. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8ccPq9pjZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/y8ccPq9pjZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfFKgChzbx\">pic.twitter.com\/SfFKgChzbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KHOU\/status\/1529973468309213262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Irma Garcia was selected as a finalist for a Trinity University prize recognizing excellence in teaching.\u00a0Joe, also a teacher, reportedly loved barbecuing with Irma and enjoyed music.<\/p>\n<p>When Irma\u2019s body was found at Robb Elementary School, she was holding a child to protect them from the shooting, the family stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIrma was a wife, a mother of 4, a cousin, a sister a daughter, an aunt and a wonderful person,\u201d Austin wrote. \u201cShe would literally do anything for anybody\u2026\u2026no questions asked. She loved her classroom kids and died trying to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a mass on Thursday night at which three of the children were present, Father Eduardo Morales blessed them, \u201cWe are your family. Your mother and father will always find a way to take care of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJose, 19, said his mother\u00a0\u2018treated her students as her own\u2019 and decorated her classrooms with college memorabilia, to inspire them to reach their academic potential,\u201d The Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to instill that in their brains,\u201d Jose said. \u201cThey were her lifeblood. She loved engaging with children and teaching them. She loved her job and she loved her co-workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDying from grief, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/coronavirus-pandemic-broken-heart-syndrome\/\">broken heart syndrome,<\/a>\u00a0is caused by a surge of stress hormones, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/cardiomyopathy\/what-is-cardiomyopathy-in-adults\/is-broken-heart-syndrome-real\">American Heart Association<\/a>, that is usually caused by an emotionally stressful event,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/irma-joe-garcia-texas-school-shooting-broken-heart-syndrome\/\">CBS News<\/a> noted. \u201cThe death of a loved one is a common reason for the stress-induced cardiomyopathy. According to the association, it is often misdiagnosed as a heart attack because of similar symptoms. Both attacks display a dramatic change in rhythm, but there are no blocked arteries in broken heart syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers murdered in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, say that he died of a broken heart. \u201cI truly believe Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life of more than 25 years was too much to bear,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1494070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}